{"product_id":"the-shaw-festival-the-first-fifty-years-9780195446111","title":"The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a warm  humid night in June of 1962  four amateur actors sat on stools in the Court House of Niagara-on-the-Lake for their first performance of Don Juan in Hell from George Bernard Shaws Man and Superman. It was a \"modest\" first performance  without the pomp and circumstance of other theatre openings  and many were unsure of the lifespan of such a theatre experience. So began founder Brian Dohertys Shaw Festival  or as it was humbly called in the beginning  A Salute to Shaw.Entering its silver anniversary  the Shaw Festival has seen the curtains open and close on numerous performances. L.W. Conolly  Shaw Festival scholar and Professor of English at Trent University  takes us on an anecdotal journey in The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years. In it  he celebrates one of the biggest theatre festivals in Canada  all the while honouring George Bernard Shaw and the men and women who helped make the Court House and Festival Theatres what they are toda\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665815658549,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195446119","price":105.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195446111.jpg?v=1782408309","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-shaw-festival-the-first-fifty-years-9780195446111","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}